Bonifacio

Boys' name

The one with a good fate

Bonifacio has been given to 1,568 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Bonifacio, 2024

1 in 478,000

Bonifacio over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bonifacio: meaning, origin, and history

The one with a good fate

Latin and Spanish

What Bonifacio means

Bonifacio means “the one with a good fate”, associated with Bonifātius.

Origin, language, and formation

Bonifacio is used in Italian, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Latin and Spanish.

Bonifacio comes through Late Latin Bonifātius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Boniface.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Bonifacio is pronounced /bo.niˈfa.t͡ʃo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,568 boys were recorded with the name Bonifacio between 1900 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,180 in 1900.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bonifacio?

Bonifacio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 246,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bonifacio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bonifacio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bonifacios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bonifacio was born before 1957 — so the typical Bonifacio is around 68 today.

Median birth year: 1957; About 68 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 11.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 912; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Bonifacio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1930 (35)
Years since peak: 95; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,180; 1900

Where Bonifacio is used

Across 1910–2025, Bonifacio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 46,045 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 25,000
2New Mexico1 in 33,333
3Hawaii1 in 50,000
4California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bonifacio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bonifacio around the world

Where Bonifacio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1966–1971
#2,110
in 1971
South Australia
1955–1991
#481
in 1991

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bonifacio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,180; 1900
Peak year: 1930; 35 that year
First recorded: 1900
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 1,568
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bonifacio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Anastacio Florencio Fabricio Dionicio Fidencio Boniface Cresencio Patricio Inocencio Horacio Benicio Leoncio Prudencio Vinicio Venancio Bonnie Atanacio Mauricio Crecencio Ygnacio Tiburcio Marcio Eustacio Indalecio

Sibling names for Bonifacio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Donald Ardith Roma Marvel Socorro Josefina Ofelia Edward

For a brother

Carrol Normand Gaylord Mary Frances Dudley Delmar Sanford

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